Changing it up a little bit today.
Cutting out the fat and getting straight to the point.
The most important Steem news in just 10 posts and 10 stats.
Read it. Keep up to date. Be informed.
1. Final proposals for the Steem Foundation elections
The closing date for the submission of structure proposals for the Steem Foundation has been reached.
Six proposals remain in the running by 
Voting on the proposals will take place 10 - 17 April. To vote you must pre-register by 8 April. At the time of writing 394 people have registered to vote. Make sure you add your voice - REGISTER!
2. Final IEO for Steemhunt coming up, site traffic booms
The final round of Steemhunt's Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) starts on the Daybit exchange on 8 April.
This round will be for STEEM, BTC, ETH and EOS and will have 400,000 HUNT tokens ($8,000) in prizes.
Since Steemhunt began its IEOs on 14 March it has seen a 600% growth in traffic to its site.
3. Three into one does go - The Merger Proposal
At the eleventh hour three of the Foundation proposals announced they were merging to form a new united proposal tagged 'The Merger'.
The Grow the Chain (
4. Steemhunt drops an investment bombshell on 
Leading Steem commentator and witness
He believes the 20% annual return offered to delegators by Steemhunt could become a more attractive investment proposition than bid bots.
5. Big Things coming for Steem
The future is looking large for Steem according to 
Many positive changes have taken place on the Steem chain since the dark redundancy days. Steemit Inc are transitioning from survive to thrive modes, and developments from the community are coming on big time.
One stand-out move that
6. The Minnows are rising...
As part of 
Although the net gain was tempered by an outflow of existing minnows powering down, the project succeeded in its goal with 316 new minnows being created in the month.
But important lessons were learnt...
7. The Steem Power distribution is improving
Although the pace of change is slow the distribution of stake across the platform is improving. Projects like 10,000 Minnows are playing a part in building the Steem 'Middle Class'.
8. Steem Merchants gets another signup
Despite the current political and economic difficulties in Venezuela the Steem Merchants project has managed to sign up another business to start accepting payments in STEEM and SBD.
Karla Gomez Makeup Artist in the capital Caracas has become the eight business to join the project.
9. SwapSteem SWEET'Drop is live
New peer-to-peer Steem exchange SwapSteem has begun the airdrop of its SWEET token...
10. Steem Digital Asset Report - a good read?
This is not a Steem post but an external in-depth review of the current state of Steem.
It is always good to get an outsider's perspective on the State of Steem.
This report taglines with "Steem has multiple problematic issues: but incentivizing users may be the biggest."
Is the review sound, fair and accurate - or is it woefully off-target?
You read. You decide...
BONUS POST - Nathan Mars says it like it is
Dynamic Steem promoter 
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & 
]
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price | US$ 0.511 | 06 Apr'19 2.35am UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 1.07 | 06 Apr'19 2.35am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #50 (n/c) | 06 Apr'19 2.35am UTC |
| FCAS Score | 534 (n/c) / C / #86 | 06 Apr'19 2.35am UTC |
| No. of Whales | 35 (+1) | 04 Apr '19 |
| No. of Orcas | 340 (-1) | 04 Apr '19 |
| No. of Dolphins | 1975 (-3) | 04 Apr '19 |
| No. of Minnows | 9340 (+11) | 04 Apr '19 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #4,943 (-27) | 06 Apr'19 2.35am UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 231,039 / day | 06 Apr'19 2.35am UTC |
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for more statistics.
Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...
This is #123 (05 Apr '19) of this daily news service.
Please let me know of any important posts or key data that should be included. Comment below or message me on Discord Pennsif#9921
